Dry humour example, pls?

Question

I am a Russian lady, but I am fascinated with everything English, especially the language ;-) I know that dry humour is a typically British thing, so can you please write some examples of it here? Very much appreciated!

Answer 1

Lady Astor: If you were my husband I'd poison your coffee.

Winston Churchill: If you were my wife I'd drink it.

Answer 2

DRY humour is basically - british comedy.
American comedy is very hahaha
But British is very sarcastic - dry humour....

here is more info I found....

These may give you even more clues to what dry humor is (or if you like, check out the comments at the bottom of the page. You’ll find some useful things there too…):

* One type of British humor is often said to be “dry humor.” It is based on a hardly observable, or small deviation-a slight gesture. — From the essay How Can Humor Be Classified?
* Humorous or sarcastic in a shrewd, impersonal way. — From thefreedictionary.com/dry
* dry is really no more than a clever circumlocution or a punch line that doesn’t need to be said. — From article How Dry is Dry?
* Deadpan is a form of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done by a person, while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression. — From Wikipedia definition of deadpan, which is what some people claim dry humour to be

Answer 3

A: Hasn't Tom ever married?
B: No, and I don't think he intends to because hi is studying for a bachelor's degree.

Teacher: What's the shape of the earth?
Johnny: It's round.
Teacher: How do you know it's round, Johnny?
Johnny: All right. It's square, then. I don't want to start an argument about it.

American traveller (to hall-porter of an Irish country hotel): How many mails a day are there in this hotel?
Hall-porter: Three, sir - breakfast, dinner and tay.

A: What is your brother in college?
B: He's a half back.
A: I mean in studies.
B: Oh, in studies he's away back.

A: Where have you been for the last fours years?
B: At college taking medicine.
A: And did you finally get well?

A: Why did they hang that picture?
B: Perhaps they couldn't find the artist.

Customer: Waiter, what's this?
Waiter: It's bean soup.
Customer: No matter what it's been. What is it now?

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Answer 4

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Dry humour example, pls?
I am a Russian lady, but I am fascinated with everything English, especially the language ;-) I know that dry humour is a typically British thing, so can you please write some examples of it here? Very much appreciated!

Answer 5

Dry humour is not sarcastic per se. It is just delivered in a way which gives no signifiers that it is a joke. It depends on two things Matter of fact delivery and the listener actually analysing what`s being said.
“My brother`s been really ill in hospital for weeks after the fire at his house. He was doing well until they covered his burns in grease. Now he`s going downhill fast”

Answer 6

A lot of the dryness is in the delivery - something like Blackadder is full of it. I'd suggest watching that. The Radio Yerevan jokes are also pretty dry in a political sort of way.

Answer 7

It can depend on the individual cat. But usually most vets will recommend keeping a healthy dry food available,and wet food offered once or twice a day max,in the right proportion for the cat.

Answer 8

Dry humor is sort of like sarcasm without the bite. I can't really think of an example though. It is really a "situational" thing.

Answer 9

Dry humor must be delivered in a flat voice with a deadpan expression on your face. If done correctly people may need to think a bit in order to decide whether or not you are being serious. In my case, they usually never know!

Dry humor often involves a play on words or statements with more than one meaning (often 3 or 4!)

Outstanding Americans to study for "dry humor delivery" :
BOB NEWHART
GARRISON KEILLOR
TOM POSTON.

Another good example is what Americans call "Yankee humor."

"You know what a Yankee is, don't you?...

"To anybody who lives outside the USA a Yankee is anybody who lives IN the USA.

"To anybody who live south of the Mason-Dixon line,
a Yankee is anybody who lives North of the Mason-Dixon line." (The separating line between the northern and southern states in the American Civil War.)

"To anybody who lives north of the Mason-Dixon line, a Yankee is somebody from New England" (states in the extreme northeast.)

"To anybody from New England, a Yankee is somebody from Vermont.

"To anybody from Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats cold baked beans and apple pie for breakfast."

This definition was given to me one morning by a lady in Vermont when I was eating cold baked beans and apple pie for breakfast.
Every step in the logical progress is CORRECT!
(I'm not quite sure about the last one tho'.)

My father's favorite is: Something "sticks out like an outhouse in the fog."
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Answer 10

I would, but I don't have a sense of humour.

Answer 11

I think it is when you tell a joke as if your were speaking seriously

when I try to do it ppl often take it seriously, not realising that im joking (perhaps believing they misunderstood me)